Death Comes As Epiphany
by:
Sharan Newman (author)
A medievalist specialist weaves mystery and romance into a fascinating tapestry of everyday life in 12th-century France. Catherine, a novice-scholar turned detective, is asked to track down evil priests, a fortune in stolen jewels, an heretical manuscript, and solve the mystery of those ill-fated...
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A medievalist specialist weaves mystery and romance into a fascinating tapestry of everyday life in 12th-century France. Catherine, a novice-scholar turned detective, is asked to track down evil priests, a fortune in stolen jewels, an heretical manuscript, and solve the mystery of those ill-fated lovers, Abelard and Heloise.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780812522938 (0812522931)
Publish date: August 15th 1995
Publisher: Forge
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
Medieval,
Mystery,
Historical Romance,
Historical Mystery,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
France
Series: Catherine LeVendeur (#1)
This medieval mystery has a modern slant. Not in an obnoxious way, but in its writing: thankfully it's not written in some pretend version of Olde English (which I've encountered in other novels). It is a little anachronistic but much less irritating than the occasional 'twas and thee and so forth...
A quick look (not necessarily exhaustive or complete) through the list of those who have read this book on Goodreads.com shows that I may be the only person of male gender to have read this book. Hmmm, Oh well, I enjoyed it anyway. It's a murder mystery, historical novel (12th Century France), roma...
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